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Re: [RFA] Add some VAX floating point formats to floatformat.[ch]
- From: "Mark Kettenis" <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- To: "Nick Clifton" <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Mark Kettenis" <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, binutils at sourceware dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot org
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:22:31 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Add some VAX floating point formats to floatformat.[ch]
- References: <200508212153.j7LLrJXJ006901@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <43098730.3060802@redhat.com>
> Hi Mark,
>
> No objections from binutils for this, although it is officially a GDB
> header file so make sure that you get agreement from them before
> committing your change.
Thanks!
>> + /* VAX byte order. */
>> + floatformat_vax
>
> I think that having a more descriptive comment for the VAX byte order
> would be helpful. eg describing the layout of 1.2345678e10 as is done
> with the other entries in this enum.
Could do that, although it wouldn't be particular useful. VAX is not quite
IEEE, so the bytes will be completely different, not just shuffled around.
Mark